Palin: 'Obama's goose is cooked'

Sarah Palin had this to say after Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker was declared the winner of Tuesday’s recall election: “Obama’s goose is cooked.”

“I think that the Democrats there understand that the president’s no-show represents the fact that Obama’s goose is cooked,” Palin told Greta Van Susteren on Fox News soon after networks called Walker the projected winner of the historic recall. She was referring to President Barack Obama’s decision not to campaign for Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett.

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As she denounced Obama’s “hopey changey stuff”, the former Alaska governor continued: “More and more Americans realize that what Wisconsin has just manifested via this vote … is the complete opposite of what president Obama and the White House represents today.”

Palin predicted that the Obama administration will try to downplay Walker’s victory and distance itself from the GOP’s win in Wisconsin.

“Jay Carney — can’t wait to see how he spins all this and ignores it, and President Obama himself,” she said. “They’re going to really try to distance themselves from this despite the fact that they, leading their lapdogs in the leftist media, made this a front page story for how many months? Months and months.”

Walker, who drew the ire of Wisconsin’s public employees after passing legislation to take away many of their collective bargaining rights, faced off against Barrett after organizers turned in some 1 million signatures to force a recall. Walker defeated Barrett in 2010 to become governor.

Palin congratulated the Republican governor on Tuesday for sending a clear message to the people of the Badger State — and the entire nation. “They’re going to help lead the charge for the rest of the country,” she said.

And the former vice presidential candidate had no kind words for Barrett.

“Not an ounce of sympathy or empathy,” Palin said, “for someone who was trying to fool the public into believing that growing government is the answer to any of the economic challenges in a city, in a state or in our nation. No.”